---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Provides relative to the placement of children in the custody of the Dept. of Children and Family Services"
description: "CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Provides relative to the placement of children in the custody of the Dept. of Children and Family Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 110"
citation: "Louisiana HB 110 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-22"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38f1a8eb-ac71-4c37-babf-f142e61511f9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233302"
source_hash: "d7819244eea958f2651154b55380b06706c65ba2fde57bf4161297eaa4c9980c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana HB 110 (2018) — CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Provides relative to the placement of children in the custody of the Dept. of Children and Family Services

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB110 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1066155)
2. **HB110 Act 189** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099045)
3. **HB110 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1085486)
4. **HB110 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1087745)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2659, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1085283)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2679, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1085462)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3112, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1087483)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2557, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1085780)
9. **HB110 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094494)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#479) — **85–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#853) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 189. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-05-02** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/18.
- **2018-04-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-11** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2018.
- **2018-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38f1a8eb-ac71-4c37-babf-f142e61511f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).